The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1887-12-02
CoDDLING ANARCHY.

cigo Is, whatever we may say Of its justi, C CT
necessity, very solemn event in American
history. II would, fifty or even thirty,
years ago, have been considered wildly im-
probable that, within this century, at least
five men would have u be hanged in
the most prosperous city in the American
Union for running amuck against the whole
community with bombs and pistols, and
that thcy would have tens Of thousands cf
sympathizcrs in various parts Of the couu-
try. A man who predicted this in the
streets of Chicago any year before the war
would undoubtedly have been considered
insane. Nevertheless, it has come to pass,
and we must, dreadful rs it is. try to get
some profit or warning ou, of it, individual
as well as National The lesson it conveys
is, in our belief, one which it behoovcs our
social philosophers, includicg under that
term phlanthropic clerGymeu, and college
professors, and labor speculators no less
than the poor Anarchists, to ponder dill
gently. Some Of thcm-we say it advis-
edly-.havc gone md arc going far to
share in tho blood outlines of this diabol-
ical Anarchist agitation by the encourage
ment they give in their lecture sand essays
and conferences" to the notion that
every man who saves or acquires in any way
more money than his neighbor. does wrong
to that ncighbor, aud that in short the
owners Of accumulated property are
band Of robbers What professor, or
preacher, or philanthropist, except Nc
Glynn, We shall be asked. has preached any
such rtrocious doc,riuc? I? Every professor,
and preacher, and fhilanthropi>t, we au-
swer, who tells crowds OF ofignorant and poor
men that there is something wrong in the
present constitution of society without
showing what the wrcng is and how it is to
be remcdicd; and every professor snd
preacher who gives poor and ignorant men
to understand thar In his opinion tho earth
supplies the means Of ''abolishing poverty"
If its products were only fairly dis,ribu-
tel.
Every ignorant and poor man who hears
this vague talk from this source treats it as
q confession of guilt on the part of the
people who own anything or are not de-
pendent on daily wages. it keeps him in
n constant state OF bitterness and unrest.
1t makes honest labor latsful. aud the
very sight Of people richer than himself
cause of irritation to him. 1t makes list
eniug to tho blatherski tc Of Socialist agi-
tators The great distraction and sol,ce Of
his life. 1t fills him with suspicion of or
hostility to everything which good men and
good women try to do, either in legislation.
or administration, or in charity, to cultivate
his ambition and self-iependencc, and to
increase his chances of rising in the world
by his own cxertions. And, finally, it
prepares him for the arrival of the bold and
desperate fanatic like Lugg, who tells him
that he has talked enough, that the time
has CONG for action, and that he will show
him how to set his que from the 'capit,-
lists"
Nothing can well be more instructive
than tho history Of this ruilian's counec-
tioa with the Chicago crime. Anarchism
In one form or another had been simmer
ing and stewing il that city for ten years,
aud was every year reinforced partly under
the influence of the Indifference or con-
tempt of the local authorities and partly
under the inf ucnce Of the encouragement
given it by social spectators and labor
reformers in other parts of the country.
The Anarchists met, and paraded, and
ha:angued a good deal year by year, but
nobody took them seriously, though the
duty of murder and arson wa, one OF the
favorite themes at their meetings aud in
their periodicals. Finally Lingg, the man
Of action, arrived from Europe with the
art of making bombs, and acted as the
spark which was to produce the explosion.
He found the materials all ready for him
that is, horde of excited men, who had
worked themselves into the belief that they
. were the victims of intolcrablc wrong for
which there was no legal remedy. In nine
months after his arrival he had them ready
to uso his bombs We know with what re-
suit.
Now, there is not city in the country
in which little circle Of malcontents of
this description may not be found-that is.
OF men who think there is fund belong
ing to the public in general waich the
owners OF property have got hold of and
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